Contextual fear memory retrieval by correlated ensembles of ventral CA1 neurons
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- Nature Communications
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Publication Date
- Jul 13, 2020
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17270-w
- Source
- Springer Nature
- License
- Green
Abstract
The vCA1-BA projection is enriched in shock responsive neurons, which are necessary for fear memory encoding and become correlated with a network of neurons during retrieval. Here the authors show that the magnitude of vCA1 correlated activity is proportional to memory strength and requires the shock response during encoding.